Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis praised President-elect Trump for nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the following secretary of the Division of Well being and Human Providers.
In a prolonged social media submit on Thursday, Polis praised Kennedy for serving to Colorado “defeat vaccine mandates” in 2019 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and can assist make America wholesome once more by shaking up HHS and FDA,” he wrote.
“I hope he leans into private alternative on vaccines moderately than bans (which I feel are horrible, similar to mandates) however what I’m most optimistic about is taking over massive pharma and the company ag oligopoly to enhance our well being,” Polis mentioned.
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks on stage in the course of the third day of the Democratic Nationwide Conference on the United Heart on August 21, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Photographs)
Trump introduced his nomination of RFK Jr. for HHS secretary Thursday afternoon, igniting a firestorm of reward and critique.
In his announcement, Trump promised that, with Kennedy main the HHS, the company can be restored because the “Gold Customary Scientific Analysis.”
“For too lengthy, Individuals have been crushed by the commercial meals complicated and drug firms who’ve engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation in terms of Public Well being,” Trump wrote. “Mr. Kennedy will restore these Businesses to the traditions of Gold Customary Scientific Analysis, and beacons of Transparency, to finish the Persistent Illness epidemic, and to Make America Nice and Wholesome Once more!”
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump shakes fingers with Impartial presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a marketing campaign rally on the Desert Diamond Enviornment, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photograph/Evan Vucci)
Kennedy launched his presidential marketing campaign as a Democrat after which finally endorsed Trump.
Kennedy additionally spoke throughout Trump’s historic Madison Sq. Backyard rally final month, the place he unleashed on the present state of the Democratic Social gathering.
“The Democratic Social gathering is the get together of battle. It is the get together of the CIA. You had Kamala Harris giving a speech on the Democratic conference that was written by neocons. It was belligerent, pugnacious. It talked about domination of the world by america by means of our weapons of battle. It is the get together as we speak that wishes to divide Individuals. It is a get together that’s dismantling ladies’s sports activities by letting males play ladies’s sports activities,” he mentioned.
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“It is the get together of Wall Avenue. It is the get together of Invoice Gates, who simply gave $50 million to Harris. It is the get together, and the Harris marketing campaign could be very proud that it obtained the endorsement of fifty former CIA brokers and officers and of John Bolton and of Dick Cheney.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced ‘No Spoiler’ pledge for the upcoming elections at a marketing campaign cease. RFK Jr. introduced that solely he may defeat Donald Trump within the common election in November and demanded that President Joe Biden step apart. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket by way of Getty Photographs)
This is not the primary time Kennedy was thought-about for a Cupboard place for a presidential administration. Again in 2008, then President-elect Obama reportedly strongly thought-about naming Kennedy to steer the Environmental Safety Company, Politico reported on the time.
Polis has been important of a Trump presidency. He lately joined forces with Illinois Gov. J.B Pritzker to co-chair a brand new coalition known as Governors Safeguarding Democracy.
The web site names “fast-moving disinformation campaigns” and “cyberthreats” as examples of “threats to our democracy.”
“Donald Trump goes to convey individuals into his administration who’re absolute loyalists to his cult of character and never essentially to the legislation,” Pritzker mentioned, in line with the New York Instances. “Final time, he didn’t actually know the place the levers of presidency have been. I feel he most likely does now. And so I feel that the menace stays nice.”
Left: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks to members of the media within the spin room following the primary vice presidential debate on the CBS Broadcast Heart in New York, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024; Proper: Ailing. Gov. J. B. Pritzker attends the Clinton International Initiative 2024 Annual Assembly at New York Hilton Midtown on Sept. 24, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Left: Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs; Proper: John Nacion/Getty Photographs;)
Throughout an look on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Polis mentioned of Trump, “we’re gonna work with him and his administration nonetheless we are able to for our state.”
Polis echoed his sentiments, writing on X that he appears ahead to “partnering with him to really make America wholesome once more.”
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“He’ll face robust particular curiosity opposition on these, however I look ahead to partnering with him to really make America wholesome once more,” Polis added.
Fox Information Digital’s Greg Wehner and Alex Nitzberg contributed to this report.